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May 15, 2008 2:45 AM by Store Adore | COMMENTS
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May 8, 2008 1:42 AM by Store Adore | COMMENTS
Charming Old City is home to some of the nation’s most important historical sites: Independence Hall, the National Constitution Center and the Liberty Bell, to name a few. Now, it’s becoming a thriving shopping district too, full of cutting-edge boutiques that are decidedly forward-thinking. Check out the Old City shopping tour here
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May 6, 2008 6:03 PM by Diana Vilibert | COMMENTS
Memo to your boss: women who take frequent vacations sleep better and are less likely to be tense or depressed. And yet, nearly a fifth of women take a vacation only once every six years. What are you waiting for? Grab the boyfriend for a romantic trip or call up the girlfriends and plan a girl-only getaway. And before you dust off your suitcase, take a look at our list of travel essentials—whether you’re going away for a weekend or a month, you’ll be glad you packed these! READ MORE
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May 2, 2008 10:06 AM by Diana Vilibert | COMMENTS
Pack a bag, grab a friend, and enjoy a much-deserved vacation. READ MORE
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May 1, 2008 1:40 AM by Store Adore | COMMENTS
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April 28, 2008 1:40 PM by Sarah Z. Wexler | COMMENTS
Here’s a short run-down of the “nature” I’ve seen in New York the past few weeks: When walking my dog, he stopped to sniff something in a patch of dirt around a tree. Turned out to be tiny (dead) baby mouse. As I was walking to work in my new bronze gladiators, I almost stepped on a severed fish head, left after the garbage was picked up from a nearby restaurant. But the last straw occurred yesterday, when I leaned close to my bathroom mirror to get my mascara just so, and realized that my face was just a few inches from a cockroach that had apparently emerged from somewhere in the medicine cabinet. On days like these, who could blame a girl could for fantasizing about getting away? READ MORE
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April 25, 2008 10:36 AM by Store Adore | COMMENTS
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April 17, 2008 4:28 PM by Store Adore | COMMENTS
Shoppers with impeccable taste and weighty wallets flock to New York's
Meatpacking District, home to some of the trendiest, most high-end designer
boutiques in all of the country. Check out the Meatpacking District
shopping tour here. READ MORE
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April 14, 2008 10:20 AM by Sarah Z. Wexler | COMMENTS
When I accepted my job at Marie Claire, I had to reveal the bad news (for them): The week after the start date they proposed, I was all booked to take a two-week trip to Greece. I worried that it would turn into bad news for me because it might cost me the job—or mean canceling a several thousand-dollar trip I’d been planning for weeks. Luckily, the bosses okayed it, and I drained every single one of my just-granted vacation and personal days, leaving me with nada for the next six months until the new ones would kick in.
Was taking the trip when I’d clocked just a week at the company a good move? I didn’t think so then, and I don’t now, either. Vacations feel best when they’re earned, something that lets me escape my routine and gives me a shot of “everything’s new!” adrenaline. But with a new job, in a new neighborhood, learning a new commute and cataloguing a litany of names and responsibilities, I longed for a routine—not more of the unknown.
Plus, no one wants to feel expendable at work. Though as a new employee, with no real ownership of any projects yet, I knew I wouldn’t be that missed. Knowing my absence wouldn’t really matter appeased my out-of-office guilt. But it also made me wonder if the company would realize they could get along fine without that spot being filled, and I’d return only to be promptly kicked from my cube. READ MORE
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April 14, 2008 3:08 AM by Anne Raybaud, French Marie Claire | COMMENTS
POURQUOI GO NOW?
Although our stringer at French MC, Anne Raybaud, plans to be
partying at the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), she'll be back in time for
other May must-dos. Lovers of Impressionism (anyone not?) will clamber in
their Chloe booties to take in "Watercolours: Studio and Open Air" at the
Musee d'Orsay (May 27–September 7) and then subway out to
Roland-Garros stadium for The French Open (May 25–June 8) to see the
cutest male tennistas in years: Federer, Nadal, Roddick, and Paris's
hometown hottie, Richard Gasquet. Wear your fave Lacoste polo.
RENDEZVOUS HERE
HOTEL AMOUR Your new French lover may suggest sharing a vodka in the
garden of Hotel Amour - formerly a house of ill repute - as it's one
of the few places left in Paris where he can still smoke.
STARCK CONTRAST Philippe Starck has reimagined the 19th-century Le
Meurice with surrealist dolphin chairs and mirrors of ice you can draw
on.
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April 10, 2008 4:52 AM by Unknown | COMMENTS
Stuffy suits and a buttoned-up style were once de rigueur in our nation’s
capitol, but in recent years D.C. has become quite the fashion force.
Nowhere is this truer than in Georgetown, where the streets are dotted with
chic and charming boutiques. Check out the Georgetown shopping tour here. READ MORE
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April 7, 2008 3:37 AM by Margaret Hartmann | COMMENTS
With his best-selling fragrances Island Michael Kors Fiji and Island Michael Kors Hawaii, the iconic designer promises a “vacation in a bottle.” But the addition of a new scent this spring, Michael Kors Island Capri, got us wondering: how do jet setters really embrace the indulgent island lifestyle?
Whether it’s heading to a private bungalow surrounded by pristine white sand beaches or a tropical paradise of waterfalls and exotic flowers, Michael Kors has the answers. Check out this guide to the ultimate tropical getaways for tips on how to experience these island escapes like an A-lister. READ MORE
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April 3, 2008 5:04 AM by Unknown | COMMENTS
Stars and those who aspire to be flock to LA’s Third Street for the designs
that will get them noticed. This stretch of cutting-edge and luxury
boutiques is one of the best shopping walks in the country. Check out the
Third Street shopping tour here. READ MORE
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April 1, 2008 3:31 PM by Lauren Iannotti | COMMENTS
I just got back from a weeklong New England roadtrip:
1. People in Maine are really nice. No, really, really nice. You think they’re putting you on, because why would anyone bother being that genial? In New York, we pay people to be, but you can always sense the tension underneath, that perpetual, low-grade resentment. I looked for this with the salesguy at L.L. Bean, the sharply turned out—but sweet(!)—woman at the Burberry outlet, the guy selling Maine State prison goods at his woodworks shop, the woman slinging haddock ‘n’ chips and pints of bitter beer, without bitterness, at the brew pub. They want to talk to you at length about how Shawshank was not a real place but the film was set in Maine and how people come in all the time asking for directions to it and isn’t that a laugh, and where are you from? Well, New York City of all places, amazing so many people on that little island. People in Maine just love their lot. Which is impressive because it’s f-ing cold there.
2. Boston is unnavigable. Try it. Just try to get from your brother’s place on the North Shore to your friend’s apartment in Somerville. (Okay, that’s not quite Boston, but it bumps up against the city and they use the same braindead civic planning.) Cross reference Mapquest, Google Maps, and the directions dictated to you by folks at both ends of your trip. You will still find yourself stopping seven times to ask how to find completely unmarked streets, and you will witness heated debates at the delis, coffee shops, and gas stations you pull into over on Highland Ave. and how to get there on the countless one-way, no-left-turn mini-highways, surrounded by maniacal Boston drivers who, in spite of your New York plates, hate you for not knowing that you’re in the right-turn-only lane. I’m from New England and I love the Red Sox. But, man, do I hate Boston.
3. I say this without irony: A good lobster roll is worth $15, even if it comes on a paper plate at a roadside shack.
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March 24, 2008 4:05 AM by Unknown | COMMENTS
Back Bay in Boston is a shopper's delight. Strolling through this scenic area
is easy and enjoyable, and the boutiques of Newbury Street are worth the
trip alone. Check out the Back Bay shopping tour here. READ MORE
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